California College of the Arts - CCA | Maria Clara Merçon | CCA 2021 Commencement Alumni Performance @CCAarts | Uploaded May 2021 | Updated October 2024, 1 hour ago.
Commissioned for CCA's 2021 Commencement Ceremony, Maria Clara Merçon's (BFA Individualized Studies 2020) video explores themes of diaspora, separation, and "saudade," a Brazilian Portuguese word describing the feeling of longing, melancholy, or nostalgia. Moving imagery from CCA's Oakland campus and Merçon's apartment, along with videos from the artist's home country, is projected on walls, plants, mirrors, and other surfaces. The artist reads a poem about exile, "saudade," and loneliness in Brazilian Portuguese and English.
Maria Clara Merçon is a multimedia artist and educator from Niterói, Brazil, and based in Oakland, California. She explores the political, physical, and emotional concept of immigration by the imagery of water, landscape, and the body through the interplay of multiple media, such as video projections, performance, and ceramics. She is constantly trying to unpack the role of immigrants in the United States and address the tension between wanting to belong while feeling othered.
Her work has been shown at the Headlands Center For the Arts Fall Open House 2019, at the CCA@CCA Virtual Brunch, and at @mostratuaarte on Instagram. mariaclaramerconne.wixsite.com/mariaclaramercon
Commissioned for CCA's 2021 Commencement Ceremony, Maria Clara Merçon's (BFA Individualized Studies 2020) video explores themes of diaspora, separation, and "saudade," a Brazilian Portuguese word describing the feeling of longing, melancholy, or nostalgia. Moving imagery from CCA's Oakland campus and Merçon's apartment, along with videos from the artist's home country, is projected on walls, plants, mirrors, and other surfaces. The artist reads a poem about exile, "saudade," and loneliness in Brazilian Portuguese and English.
Maria Clara Merçon is a multimedia artist and educator from Niterói, Brazil, and based in Oakland, California. She explores the political, physical, and emotional concept of immigration by the imagery of water, landscape, and the body through the interplay of multiple media, such as video projections, performance, and ceramics. She is constantly trying to unpack the role of immigrants in the United States and address the tension between wanting to belong while feeling othered.
Her work has been shown at the Headlands Center For the Arts Fall Open House 2019, at the CCA@CCA Virtual Brunch, and at @mostratuaarte on Instagram. mariaclaramerconne.wixsite.com/mariaclaramercon
